From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62815 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New completion mode Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 04:26:05 +0900 Message-ID: <87irpc3qnm.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <86irpe1a4h.fsf@student.uni-magdeburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145042868 27318 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2006 19:27:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:27:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11342@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 14 21:27:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUTx3-00071U-UV for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:27:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FUTwx-0007b9-00; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:27:23 -0500 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FUTvy-0007b1-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:26:22 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FUTvu-0002Vs-H5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:26:22 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FUTvt-0000Om-00 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:26:17 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FUTvr-0006tq-89 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:26:15 +0200 Original-Received: from 203-216-101-205.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.101.205]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:26:15 +0200 Original-Received: from miles by 203-216-101-205.dsl.gol.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:26:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-101-205.dsl.gol.ne.jp System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:DjWIMtyaMsefYHIFwJ62XB4wV3g= X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62815 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > I've never quite liked the completions buffer. :-) It seems to break > to flow when typing, while the Firefox approach seems so natural. The "dynamically update list of completions on each keystroke" behavior of firefox is great (though maybe not practical for emacs because of speed issues). The "fill in the rest of your input without being asked" behavior of firefox sucks. I hate it... it constantly gets in the way when I don't _want_ to complete. Do not do this (it makes even less sense in Emacs than in firefox, as Emacs doesn't default to automatically deleting the selection). Of course when implementing an Emacs extension, it's better to err on the side of being consistent with the rest of Emacs. -Miles -- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. --Albert Einstein